Pokemon GO Spoofers who hack the game could be a thing of the past thanks to a new update

Pokemon GO has a problem. Namely, in-game spoofers, which for anyone not in the know, is the term given to players who are able to play and move around the world without ever leaving a fixed location.

The hack means that spoofers could be sat in their bedroom, but battling for control over a gym two miles away.

As you might imagine, the Pokemon GO community doesn't like spoofers, who are in many ways cheating the game and making life as difficult as possible for those who play it as Niantic intended.

However, The Silph Road Reddit community has recently pointed out that spoofing could be about to get a whole lot harder, thanks to a new update for Android phones.

"I have just been reading about how the Android march security update that is rolling out has closed the back door bug that allowed most of the GPS spoofing apps to work." wrote the creators of a new Reddit thread.

"Hopefully, this will cut down on a large chunk of the spoofers, for a while at least."

Naturally, the reaction has been one of joy and cautious optimism, with a few Redditors pointing out that these updates won't affect the large majority of mobile users for some months.

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The news follows a revelationary discovery by the Silph Road team relating to egg hatches in the game.

What Pokemon hatch from an egg has remained something of a mystery up until now.with fans only aware of which

Fans have been aware of which species hatch from an egg, but Silph Road may have uncovered another layer to the in-game mechanic relating to "rarity 'tiers'" within each 2KM, 5KM and 10KM egg type.

“Egg species is determined according to hidden rarity 'tiers' that are not the same as the egg distance tiers (i.e. 2 km, 5 km, 10 km),” a new post explains.

“In simple English, this means that not all 10 km egg species are rarer than 2 km egg species or 5 km egg species.

"A simple example of this is that Dratini is presently a very common hatch, despite being in 10 km eggs."

"It is currently easier to acquire a 10 km egg with a Dratini inside than a 2 km egg with a Machop inside,” the Silph Road report continues.

The research pulled data from over 8,000 egg hatches and the four tiers can be split into the following criteria:

COMMON

UNCOMMON

RARE

ULTRA-RARE

“The average hatch rate in each group almost perfectly follows a ratio of 1:2:4:8. The split of RARE and ULTRA-RARE, unfortunately, isn't as evident. However, when combining these two groups, the frequency counts do not seem to follow a binomial distribution.”

"Not only does this knowledge impact buddy selection criteria (e.g. Dratini is likely to hatch - there's now much less need to walk yours!), but it helps place far less significance on the 2 km, 5 km, or 10 km egg attribute as a whole."

The full list of Pokemon that feature in each rarity bracket can be found in the original post, split into both Gen 1 and Gen 2.